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BART fires cop who helped detain Oscar Grant

originally published by: FSGate
26th March 2010

BART’s police department has fired an officer who helped detain train rider Oscar Grant before he was fatally shot by a second officer at Oakland’s Fruitvale Station on Jan. 1, 2009.

Marysol Domenici, 29, was fired Wednesday by interim Police Chief Dash Butler. He followed the recommendation of a law firm BART hired to do an independent internal affairs probe into the shooting by former Officer Johannes Mehserle, who faces a murder trial this summer.

24 March 201015 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Aborigine who died in custody was punched on the ground

originally published by: SKY News
9th March 2010

A new inquest into the death of an aboriginal man in an Australian police station has been told he was punched on the ground by an officer who had his knee on his chest.

Mulranji Doomadgee died in a police cell on Palm Island off the coast of Queensland in 2004. He had suffered massive internal injuries including his liver being cut almost in two. Sergeant Chris Hurley had arrested him for being drunk and abusive. Following the original inquest, he was charged with manslaughter, but an all-white jury took only four hours to acquit him.

The police union then applied for a new inquest to be held to try to exonerate the officer from any blame. Following the death of Mr Doomadgee, Palm Island erupted in rioting, and police reinforcements had to be sent from the mainland to restore order.

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Russian policeman gets life for killings

originally published by: The Raw Story
19th February 2010

A Russian police major who shot two people dead and wounded seven others in a supermarket rampage that stoked public outrage over police brutality was sentenced on Friday to life in prison.

Denis Yevsyukov, the former head of police of the southern Moscow district of Tsaritsyno, was found guilty on two counts of murder and 22 counts of attempted murder, prosecutors said. “The court found Denis Yevsyukov guilty of these crimes and sentenced him to life in prison in a maximum-security prison colony,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement.

The life term imposed by a three-judge panel at Moscow City Court was the maximum sentence Yevsyukov could be given for his April 2009 shooting spree, which sparked calls to reform Russia’s notoriously corrupt and brutal police.

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